Employee timetables, track charts, and other material from railroads in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Items are dated between 1939 and 1985. All of the material, except the map of the Port of Charleston, comes from companies that eventually merged into CSX Corporation.
A graduate of North Carolina State College of Agricuture and Engineering (later University), A. Crane Jones was senior vice president of CSX Corporation when he retired in 1989. CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 by the merger of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries. Each of these companies had been formed by earlier mergers involving the Seaboard System Railroad, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and other companies.
A graduate of North Carolina State College of Agricuture and Engineering (later University), A. Crane Jones was senior vice president of CSX Corporation when he retired in 1989. CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 by the merger of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries. Each of these companies had been formed by earlier mergers involving the Seaboard System Railroad, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and other companies.
After a railroad career spanning forty-five years, A. Crane Jones retired in 1989 as senior vice president of the CSX Corporation. Jones graduated from North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later University) in 1951 with a B.S. in civil engineering. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Following his retirement from CSX, Jones dedicated himself to organizations serving Jacksonville, Florida, and actively supported many N.C. State University endeavors. Jones died in April 2001 and was survived by his wife Jane, their children, and grandchildren.
In 2006, CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Florida, owns companies providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services connecting more than 70 river, ocean and lake ports, as well as more than 200 short line railroads. Its principal operating company, CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT), operates the largest railroad in the eastern United States with a 22,000-mile rail network linking commercial markets in 23 states, the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces. CSXT headquarters are in Jacksonville, Florida.
CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 by the merger of the Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries. Seaboard Coast Line Industries owned the Seaboard System Railroad, which had absorbed the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad, as well as several smaller subsidiaries.
The Seaboard System Railroad was created in 1982 as a result of CSX Corporation merging its subsidiaries Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL) and Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N). The railroad only existed for four years, becoming part of CSX Transportation in 1986. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad August 30, 1957. The Monon Railroad merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad July 31, 1971. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, of which part had been used by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, sold that portion to CSX Transportation in 1991. On September 11, 1992, CSX Transportation bought the rest of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad through the Three Rivers Railway.
Employee timetables, track charts, and other material from railroads in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Items are dated between 1939 and 1985. All of the material, except the map of the Port of Charleston, comes from companies that eventually merged into CSX Corporation. The Port of Charleston is served by CSX.
Employee timetables govern the day-to-day operation of the railroad, giving information about stations, mileposts, speed limits, equipment restrictions, and more.
Track charts diagram grade, curvature, track configuration, stations, bridges, crossovers, grade crossings, rail yards, and some structures.
The collection is organized into twelve series, one for each company represented.
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[Identification of item], A. Crane Jones collection of railroad timetables, track charts, and other material, MC 00057, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Received from A. Crane Jones of Jacksonville, Florida in 1995 (Accession 2005-0014).
Processed by Linda Sellars, 2006 January; Encoded by Linda Sellars, 2006 January
The collection is organized into twelve principal series:
Employee timetables, 1980-1985, of divisions of the Chessie System Railroads.
1.5 archival boxes
Undated track charts of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad.
0.5 archival box
Condensed profiles, 1939-1971 and undated, of track of divisions and subdivisions of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company.
3 archival boxes
Condensed profile, 1961, of the Souisville Henderson and St. Louis Railroad.
1 folder
Condensed profile and track chart of the Monon Railroad.
1 folder
Undated profile and aligments of divisions of the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.
10 folders
An employee timetable, 1982, and three undated track charts of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.
4 folders
Undated map of the port of Charleston.
1 folder
Condensed profiles, 1977, of divisions of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.
8 folders
Employee timetables, 1983-1984, of divisions of the Seaboard System Railroad.
0.5 archival box
Profile and alignment, undated, of the eastern division main line of the Tennessee Central Railroad Company.
1 folder
Employee timetable, 1984, of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Company.
1 folder
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[Identification of item], A. Crane Jones collection of railroad timetables, track charts, and other material, MC 00057, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.